So, I'm a crafter and I use Inkscape with a Cricut and also to do sublimation printing. I've noticed that my color palettes (customized) colors do not match what is actually subbed (printed). I know that the printer is using Adobe 2.2 color management, and I tried to select the Adobe 1998 under Inkscape color management (display) and it makes no difference. Is there some way that I can get the computer display (I'm assuming thru color management) in Inkscape to better match my printed results? TIA.
Hi Wilma, Colour management is quite something in Inkscape. Let me give it a try. Inkscape uses the sRGB colour profile. Printers usually use some kind of CMYK profile. There the trouble starts.
Do you have your own printer?
In the preferences > input /output > color management - The display setting is where you select your own display, for example a Dell or Eizo. Your display has its own icc profile that you choose there. - Under proofing you check simulate output on screen. - There you choose in the device profile the icc profile of your own printer. And you choose perceptual or relative colormetric.
That is one.
When you have a file opened, you can see what colours will look like when printed. There is a tiny button on the right below: Toggle color-managed display etc.
When this button works, it will show what the colours will look like when printed onto your chosen printer. That button sometimes doesn't work. Then you have to go back to the preferences and toggle between perceptual/ relative colormetric. Now the tiny button works and you get a preview of the printed colours.
Did you know this already?
That was two.
Then you might want to export your files with real cmyk colours? If you want to get them printed through a printing service. That is a third thing that requires a lot of explaining...
Thank you, both, for those suggestions. I don't see much difference so, I'm assuming my screen color is pretty close to IRL and maybe it's just the lighting on the finished product that gives me a slight difference--which I can live with.
When you have a file opened, you can see what colours will look like when printed. There is a tiny button on the right below: Toggle color-managed display etc.
Which state is on and which state is off? It isn't at all obvious from appearances. I can see the color onscreen change slightly when it toggles, but there's no indication of what state it's in.
Depending on the UI theme in use... the button may have a darker background when activated in a light theme, on a darker theme the background may be blue.
Beyond the Basics Color Management Question
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So, I'm a crafter and I use Inkscape with a Cricut and also to do sublimation printing. I've noticed that my color palettes (customized) colors do not match what is actually subbed (printed). I know that the printer is using Adobe 2.2 color management, and I tried to select the Adobe 1998 under Inkscape color management (display) and it makes no difference. Is there some way that I can get the computer display (I'm assuming thru color management) in Inkscape to better match my printed results? TIA.
Hi Wilma,
Colour management is quite something in Inkscape. Let me give it a try.
Inkscape uses the sRGB colour profile. Printers usually use some kind of CMYK profile. There the trouble starts.
Do you have your own printer?
In the preferences > input /output > color management
- The display setting is where you select your own display, for example a Dell or Eizo. Your display has its own icc profile that you choose there.
- Under proofing you check simulate output on screen.
- There you choose in the device profile the icc profile of your own printer. And you choose perceptual or relative colormetric.
That is one.
When you have a file opened, you can see what colours will look like when printed. There is a tiny button on the right below:
Toggle color-managed display etc.
When this button works, it will show what the colours will look like when printed onto your chosen printer.
That button sometimes doesn't work. Then you have to go back to the preferences and toggle between perceptual/ relative colormetric.
Now the tiny button works and you get a preview of the printed colours.
Did you know this already?
That was two.
Then you might want to export your files with real cmyk colours? If you want to get them printed through a printing service.
That is a third thing that requires a lot of explaining...
The color profile in the Document Properties (color tab) may also need to be set.
Thank you, both, for those suggestions. I don't see much difference so, I'm assuming my screen color is pretty close to IRL and maybe it's just the lighting on the finished product that gives me a slight difference--which I can live with.
Which state is on and which state is off? It isn't at all obvious from appearances. I can see the color onscreen change slightly when it toggles, but there's no indication of what state it's in.
Depending on the UI theme in use... the button may have a darker background when activated in a light theme, on a darker theme the background may be blue.